Text Box: Taking Innovation to Market Text Box: We live in a region where technology is a vital part of our daily lives. Maryland is a place that has amazing potential for advancing technology. Our state had more than 80 federal laboratories conducting applied federal research and development. Howard Community College, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, has developed an exciting new course ENTR-215 “Taking Innovation to Market” that teaches entrepreneurs operation between development and delivery to the marketplace. While working directly with participating research labs, such as John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Text Box: Space Flight Center and United States Department of Agriculture, the ENTR-215 course is designed to teach teamwork, critical thinking and decision-making skills. Teams of high school, community college, and continuing education students are guided by faculty, mentors, and inventors to evaluate technology, perform market research, and analyze the potential for commercialization. At the end of the course, the students participate in a public event and present their findings and recommendations to business owners, entrepreneurs, researchers, technology transfer experts, and venture Text Box: capitalists. ENTR-215 is a three credit General Education Core under the area of Interdisciplinary, Emerging Issue and a Business & Entrepreneurial Elective and will run on T / TH 11:00 am-12:20 pm or W 7:00 pm-10:00pm. For more information visit Technology Assessment Program website: www.inventiotobusiness.com or www.inventiontobusiness.org Call 410-772-4431 or email: LVolynskiy@howardcc.edu Text Box: HCC and the Transatlantic Training and Technology Alliance (TA3) hosted a conference on ” New Solutions for a Changing Workforce” on Monday, June 2, 2008.  National and international speakers spoke about how educators from the U.S. and abroad can respond to the needs of a changing workforce and discussed what cultural competencies students need to have in this new environment. Colleagues from Maryland, and other parts of the U.S., Denmark, Ireland, Finland, and South Africa attended the conference. Students from ENTR-215 “Taking Innovation to Market” presented their technology assessment project “Alzheimer Memory Assist System”. Team members including students Bill Ciosek, Paul Jaworski, Kathleen Skarbek, Pratik Patel, Jared Horton (pictured on the right) and Johns Hopkins APL inventors Kevin Baldwin, Daniel Hahn, Ann Morrison, Paul Rosenberg and mentor Harold Rappaport worked together. This JHU/APL invention will aid those afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease to identify family members from different periods in their lives. Text Box: Inside this issue: Text Box: While an invention is merely theoretical an innovation is an invention that has been put into practice. Text Box: TA3 Conference @ HCC

 July 2008,Volume 6

Funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant No. 0538751

It is time to enroll in ENTR-215

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Student receives scholarship

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A Technology Transfer Story

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Spotlight on TAP

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